{"id":241026,"date":"2026-04-21T22:50:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T22:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/241026\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T22:50:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T22:50:11","slug":"missing-usf-doctoral-students-sought-by-law-enforcement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/241026\/","title":{"rendered":"Missing USF doctoral students sought by law enforcement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/6rpuh3zu9n8g0eq6.jpg\" alt=\"Search for missing USF doctoral students \" class=\"sr-only\" data-v-4292be72=\"\"\/>  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/video\/fmc-2rs5k8hbrygqz883\" data-v-4292be72=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Search for missing USF doctoral students <\/a> <\/p>\n<p data-v-4292be72=\"\">University of South Florida police and the Hillsborough County Sheriff\u2019s Office are asking for help locating two missing USF students. FOX 13&#8217;s Genevieve Curtis reports.<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">TAMPA, Fla. &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/tag\/organization\/usf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">University of South Florida<\/a> police and the H<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/tag\/us\/fl\/hillsborough\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">illsborough County<\/a> Sheriff\u2019s Office are asking for help locating two <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\/missing-persons\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">missing<\/a> USF students.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTVT\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-871f4c88=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">Law enforcement is searching for 27-year-old Zamil Limon and 27-year-old Nahida S. Bristy.<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">Limon, a USF doctoral student pursuing a degree in geography, environmental science and policy, was last seen around 9 a.m. at his home on Avalon Heights Blvd. on April 16.<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">Bristy, a USF doctoral student studying chemical engineering, was last seen around 10 a.m. on April 16 at the NES Building, 121 USF Sweetgum Lane, on the USF Tampa campus.<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">Police said a family friend contacted USFPD shortly before 5 p.m. on April 17 after they were unable to contact Limon or Bristy.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTVT\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-871f4c88=\"\">Dig deeper:<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">A public information officer with USFPD said the pair, who are both from Bangladesh, are friends and the pair are believed to be together.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">Police said they are not being held by ICE, which was a concern for family members.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">According to investigators, both of their phones are off.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">Investigators also noted that this is not usual behavior for the pair, who are good students.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTVT\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-871f4c88=\"\">What we don&#8217;t know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">The circumstances surrounding their disappearance are unknown.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTVT\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-871f4c88=\"\">What you can do:<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">Anyone with information on Limon or Bristy\u2019s whereabouts is asked to contact USFPD at (813) 974-2628.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: This article was written with information provided by the University of South Florida Police Department in a press release.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/tag\/us\/fl\/hillsborough\/tampa\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-871f4c88=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tampa<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/tag\/organization\/usf\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-871f4c88=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">University of South Florida<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\/missing-persons\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-871f4c88=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Missing Persons<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Search for missing USF doctoral students University of South Florida police and the Hillsborough County Sheriff\u2019s Office are&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":241027,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[630,47,629,6888,115,1536,135,137,136,628,1537],"class_list":["post-241026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-crime-publicsafety","tag-fl","tag-hillsborough","tag-missing-persons","tag-news","tag-organization","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news","tag-us","tag-usf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241026\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/241027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}